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Ok, figure out "Nihon Bash"!!!

I hate that the best we can be is dead. We need him or her or it or them to be alive and walking the planet today, in the flesh and in the blood. If love conquers all, perhaps we no longer understand love. But Louis never forgot.

It's wonky as fuck, which I tend to like. Not forever, but for a while.

This is pretty much the band that I saw live in December of 1970, captured in a pretty reasonable recorded representation. To call them powerful would be a gross injustice! If I had a time machine to go back to any gig I ever attended, that might be the one.. first live jazz, and LOCKJAW!!! Harold Jones still does not get enough credit. Hell that vintage of Basie doesn't get enough credit. Blame it on the records. But not this one.

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Yeah, I wasn't moved at all by either the overalls band or the suited up guys. Apart from the marketplace, it was over by then (generally, and of course there would be exceptions). So if you mean it's "important" in that he caught a commercial wave that he rode for a looooong time, then, yeah. Otherwise, no, not important at all, at least not to me. Like I said, if he had died in 1976 his legacy would be assured. Might even be stronger, because my god, look at who all he had before then. Then look at who all he had after then. There's a pretty distinct difference. Yeah, well, that's a totally different type of "jazz", and it's one for which I have nothing but disdain (and worse).

Different human personalities as well, different lifestyles, different goals and executions of them. And believe it or not, not everybody who worked with them was totally enthralled with the overall experience. There was talk about Max wanting to play too fast and loud all the time, and of Blakey being, uh...as Curtis Fuller put it, "a rascal". Eliminating either one from the picture, or even elevating one over the other, creates a gap that the other one does not fill. In all honesty, I can do without any Messengers record from about, let's be very generous, 1976 or so onward. But so what? If Blakey had died in 1975 (which of course he didn't), the point would be moot. But for my purposes, from a musical standpoint he might as well have. And now, most assuredly they are both most assuredly dead. So...yeah, my Max interest extends further chronologically than does my Blakey interest, but within my Blakey interest, that interest is quite keen. First tune on my first Blakey record, which was my first Blue Note record, which was one of my first 30 or so jazz records. How the hell does that not indelibly burn itself into your heart, mind, and soul.

The ship will right itself and return to an even keel. Messengers from 1954 up to 1964 or so are indispensable. Indispensable. And not everybody likes Max post-Clifford, especially once the Civil Rights material begins. You're not hearing it here, but they are out there. Personally I think they're crazy and/or deaf, but...just sayin', they're out there, you'd be surprised.

Blakey w/Wayne & Blakey w/Lee are imprint music for me. Especially with both of them in the same band. Max with both Cliffords are as well Max with Billy is pretty new soul-birthing for me. Some musics just create a new heart in me, renew a right spirit within me. And Max/Billy was one of those musics. One of them. Now, when it comes to overall output, yeah, Max, hands down, because Max did ALL kinds of badass shit, and Blakey pretty much did the Messengers, where some bands were significantly better than others. And pre-Messenger Blakey is good, really good, but these days is not really considered in the general conversation.

Freakin' George Jones wannabe...

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I'll take that bet!

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Up for air. Spotify has some of this stuff, and I 'm getting a buzz just listening to Marshall Royal lead the section

No preference, and on any given Sunday, it will depend what I'm wanting as to which one I reach for. In both cases, they're known quantities, and so are their records. Although - I never reach for a Max record to hear Cecil Bridgewater. But one good Billy Harper makes up for that, and then some.

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I love how they give Karen Krog "Walking Woman" as walk-on music, and walk on she does! Oh, look at this! Carla Bley – Walking Woman ( 1Pro-CDR ) Necromancer Regular Reissue .NRR-CD20161 – DiscJapan Oh, and this! Carla Bley (nga.gov)

surely more exists than this one bit? https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiK_YrLiqv5AhWpj2oFHSx3ATEQtwJ6BAgLEAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DffeGOCMJsv8&usg=AOvVaw2MSDE6ePOUxRrQ5bBP0NOA

I loved that book. Lots of detail told very obliquely. And things still left unspoken. A prefect parallel to Bley's playing imo.

Kay Trelp - Whistlin' Gloves (w/the Jack Chronister Orchestra)

Oh my!

Spilling the tea while stirring the soup, these metaphors are just becoming more delightful right before our very eyes!